Toy bank.



Patented July 3|, I900.

C. KEMPF.

TOY BANK.

(Application filed Dec. 22, 1899.) (No Modal.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL KEMPF, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES MUELLER, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

TOY BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Lettersl iatent No. 654,736, dated. Jur 31, 1900. Application filed December 2a 1899. serum. 741,304. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL KEMPF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee,- in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wiscousin, have invented a new and useful Toy ilfank, of which the following is a specifica-,

This invention is a new and useful construction of toy money bank, the object be-' ing to provide a cheap and simple appliance which can be used for the storage of coins and which cannot be opened except after a predetermined number of coins has been inserted within the same.

With this object in view the invention consists in the peculiar construction of the various parts and in their novel combinationor arrangement, all of which will be fully described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure lis a perspective view of a toy money-bank constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional View through a portion of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the manner of opening the device, and Fig. at is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention I employ a hollow body portion A, and in the drawings I have shown this portion A as being the leg of a boot; but it will of course be understood that any other shape of hollow body can be used, so long as the interior of the same is hollow and essentially circular in cross-section. A metallic casing B is arranged within the hollow body A and is secured therein by means of a screw 0, which passes through the bottom of the body into the bottom of the casing. The body is constructed with vertical groovesD upon opposite sides of the interior, said grooves being adapted to receive the lifting-rods E, the lower ends of which are bent inwardly at right angles, as shown at E, and pass through openings B, produced in the sides of the casing adjacent to the bottom of the same, and at their upper ends the lifting-rods E are preferably shaped into loops, as shown at E intended to represent boot-straps. F represents the top of bank,

' -the said top being formed with a corrugated flange F, which is adapted to engage the correspondingly-corrugated upper portion of the casing B, and in this manner the top is securely fastened. A slot G is produced in the body portion adjacent to the top thereof, and the corresponding slot G is produced in the casing, and through which coins can be introduced, said coins falling to the bottom and piling one upon the other, as shown most clearly in Fig. 2, and it will be noted that although the lifting-rods can be freely lifted, carrying with them the coins, such operations will not have the efiect of opening the bank until the same is filled. After the casing has become filled the'lifting-rods are drawn up, carrying with them the coins, and the column of coins pressing upon the top will serve to dislodge the same, as shown in Fig. 3, and the coins can be then removed from the bank. After the coins have been removed the top can be set in place again and the bank is ready for use.

It will thus be seen-that I provide a very cheap and simple device by means of which coins can be kept until a predetermined number has been. placed in the bank, and it will also be noted that it will be impossible to open the said bank until that number has been placed within the same.

The body and casing may have a series of perforations or openings produced therein and properly designated to indicate the number of coins contained withinthe bank; but such constructionis not necessary.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitediStates, is-

1. In a toy money-bahkfthe combination with the casing, having openings in the side adjacent to the bottom, of the lifting-rods arranged upon the sides of thecasing and haw ing inwardly-bent ends projecting through said openings and the top adapted to fit snugly into the upper end of the casing, sub stantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a toy money-bank, the combination with the body having grooves in the interior thereof, of a casing arranged within the said body and said casing having openings in the Ice sides thereof adjacent 'tothe bottom, the liftadjacentto theif upper ends for the recep- *ing-rodsharranged in the groove of the body. tion of coins, substantially as shown and deand having inwardly-bent ends adapted to scribed.

extend throughthe openings, a. top adapted v CARL KEMPFQ- 5 to fit snugly into the upper end of the casing Witnesses,

and means for securing the casing withinthe EUGEN B-AUR,"

said body, said body and easing being slotted .FCHAS; MUELLER, J rQ- 

